Filled with large-format illustrations taken within the nation's capital city, this pictorial guide to a beautiful urban locale includes more than two hundred photographs of such monuments as the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Memorial, the National Gallery Archives, the Holocaust Museum, and much more.
Von Hardesty is currently a curator in the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He has written a number of books, and lives in the metropolitan D.C. area.